The Mother Lode: Sister Sister
Welcome to TNG’s motherly advice column, The Mother Lode! This week, Rocky’s mom, Daisy, answers a question from a reader who wonders if things had been different if she’d had a gay daughter instead of...
View ArticleThe Mother Lode: The Name Game
Welcome to TNG’s weekly motherly advice column, The Mother Lode! This week, Zack’s mom, Gaga, is here to answer you pressing questions! Q: Dear Moms, As someone who is transgender, I am planning to...
View ArticleThe Mother Lode: Home For The Holidays
Welcome to TNG’s motherly advice column, The Mother Lode! This week, Rocky’s mom, Daisy, answers a question from a reader who’s worried about bringing his significant other, and even his friends, home...
View ArticleThe Mother Lode: Growing Up Is Nearly Impossible To Do
Welcome to TNG’s weekly motherly advice column, The Mother Lode! This week, Zack’s mom, Gaga, is here to answer you pressing questions! Q: Dear Mom, Next month, I’ll be turning 28 and, even though I’m...
View ArticleThe Mother Lode: Get Out of the Groove
Welcome to TNG’s weekly motherly advice column, The Mother Lode! This week, Rocky’s (psych major) mom, Daisy, counsels a reader who needs a little kick in the pants and some help in the “He’s Just Not...
View ArticleNot Your Average Prom Queen: The Look
One day last week, my mother and I spent the afternoon shopping – as we have spent many afternoons during my unemployment. Twice during the week we frequented the same store, and each time I made eye...
View ArticleThe Mother Lode: Mind The Gap
Welcome back to TNG’s weekly motherly advice column, The Mother Lode! We took a little time off to enjoy the holidays but we are back and ready for all your questions. Now talking politics with your...
View ArticleIdeas: How to Avoid The Holiday Blues
The holidays are not for everyone. Not everyone gets into the spirit. Some people don’t have great trips or families to visit for holiday cheer. Whether you have moved to a new city with no new...
View ArticleThe Mother Lode: Blue Christmas
Welcome to TNG’s weekly motherly advice column, The Mother Lode. This week, Zack’s mom, Gaga, helps a reader who won’t be home for Christmas this year. Q: Dear Mom, For those of us spending the...
View ArticleLearning to Drive Stick: Please Proceed 50 Yards and Then Turn Left
Follow Student Driver, a life-long lesbian-identified woman as she dabbles in the world of heterosexuality, in our new syndicated ladysex column “Learning To Drive Stick.” Check her out every Tuesday...
View ArticleSelf Help: Learn the Tasteful Art of the Famous
Of course first and foremost I am an eager TNG blogger, striving always to bring to you the very very best of TV experiences. The world being as it is, though, I must do something distasteful called...
View ArticleAdvice: Commencement Considerations
This post was submitted by Nick Tryling It’s common knowledge that the holidays can be a difficult time of year for most, and that LGBTQ folks can endure their own kind of awkwardness during large...
View ArticleFrom Lesbos With Love: A Clutch Decision
If only... You’re going out and you have to bring a purse. You’re drinking at the bar feeling hot and some chick asks you to dance. All of a sudden you realize you’re not an octopus. How do you manage...
View ArticleWell-Intended Questions: “So…You’re Straight?”
Once, while interning at a progressive organization, I was at a happy hour with a couple of other interns and staff members. A staff member seated next to me, who I had only just minutes ago straight...
View ArticleAdvice: Am I a Bisexual Batman?
Is it ever O.K. to hide who you are? What if it cost you your job? Well, I’m coming out to you, readers: By day, I work as managing editor, by night I work in childcare. GASP! I know, I know. Big deal,...
View ArticleIdeas: Avoiding New Year’s Eve Humiliation
Now I wouldn’t possibly expect for any advice that I can dole out to be heeded about the perils of New Year’s Eve embarrassment, but I can certainly tell you the tell-tale signs of when you are headed...
View ArticleIdeas: Being Alive in 2011
Being Alive, 2011. What makes YOU feel alive – seriously alive?! It’s a question worth asking anytime, but especially now that we begin 2011. Think back over the last twelve months and ask yourself–...
View ArticleAsk a Trans Person: Learn How to Navigate the Gender Minefield
Slow down and think about that question you're about to ask There is a common sentiment amongst the broader Ls, Bs, and Gs of the collective communities. They do not know how to learn, or even try to...
View ArticleAdvice: 10 Tips for Easy V-day Shopping
I’ve worked at a fancy candy store for three years now–this will be my third Valentines Day here’s my top 10 do’s and dont’s for a better shopping experience. Some of these might seem like no-brainers...
View ArticleFrom Lesbos With Love: Are You in Lust or Love?
Photo by Johntex My ex-girlfriend was hesitant, at first, to tell me she loved me because she was worried she was confusing lust with love. I was upset when she told me this. She had already said “I...
View ArticleAdvice: Enjoy Time Spent
Submission by K. Kriesel, TNG contributor “Longevity is not a good criterion by which to judge the success or failure of a relationship.” - The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy After...
View ArticleYes, Master: Reality and Fantasy
Anyone who has ever gone on a vacation, been in a relationship, embarked on any sort of extensive project, or participated in BDSM knows that sometimes there are wide areas of disconnect between...
View ArticleAdvice: Outing vs. Honesty
Submission by Branden Lee, TNG first-time contributor Branden Lee is a writer and aspiring screenwriter from Pennsylvania and currently studying Communications in Boston. His work has previously been...
View ArticleAdvice: The New Gay Dad
Submission by Brent Almond, TNG first-time contributor. Almond is the owner and creative director of Design Nut, a graphic design studio in the Washington DC Metro area. He and his husband live just...
View ArticleThe Adventures of the Boi Wonder: Dealing with Interpersonal Trauma
, via Wikimedia Commons”]By Russss, taken from Wikimedia Commons “I’m so tired, sheep are counting me No more struggle, no more energy No more patient and you can write that down It’s all too crazy and...
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